Looking for a Paramedic Program Equipment List

[AnatomyChick]

The school that I work for is planning to hold their first Paramedic program this year. I am assisting with the coordination of this program, and want to make sure that we have everything we need. Do one of you have a "list" of equipment that is needed to teach a program like this? Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

Jo

[pguy280]

Hi Jo

A friend of mine owns this comapny in mass and has just purchased all the necesseities to start offering an acrediated paramedic program.

www.FirstResponseEME.com.

I am sure he has a list that he maybe able to share

When an if you email let him know that i suggested that you talk to him

Brendan

[Arizonaffcep]

Don't know if this will help, but maybe a good place to start (your state PROBABLY varies from this list to some degree). This is what the State of Arizona requires for an ALS program.

Department of Health Services – Emergency Medical Services

December 31, 2007 Page 23 Supp. 07-4

Exhibit A. Equipment Minimum Standards for the Arizona

EMT-I Course, EMT-P Course, ALS Refresher, and EMTI(

99)-to-EMT-P Transition Course

Historical Note

New Exhibit made by final rulemaking at 9 A.A.R. 5372,

Quantity Equipment

1 Moulage or Casualty Simulation Equipment

6 Trauma Dressings

1 per student Pen Lights (or provided by the student)

1 per student Scissors (or provided by the student)

4 Stethoscopes (or provided by the student)

4 Blood pressure cuffs - adult sizes

4 Blood pressure cuffs - child size

4 Bag-valve-mask devices - adult size

4 Bag-valve-mask devices - pediatric size

2 Oxygen tank with regulator and key

(Must be operational and maintain a minimum

of 500psi.)

4 Oxygen masks non-rebreather - adult

4 Oxygen masks non-rebreather - child

4 Nasal cannulas

2 boxes Alcohol preps

One box per student

Gloves - (small, medium, large, and extra large,

non-latex)

(each student has one box of an appropriate size

available during the course)

6 packages 4x4 sponges (non sterile)

5 boxes 5x9 sponges (non sterile)

36 rolls Rolled gauze (non sterile)

5 Occlusive dressings

2 Traction splint devices

2 Cervical-thoracic spinal immobilization device

for extrication, with straps

2 Long spine boards with securing devices

3 of

each size

Cervical collars (small, regular, medium, large,

and extra large)

NOTE: may substitute 6 adjustable devices

NOTE: Soft collars and foam types are not

acceptable

2 Head immobilization materials/devices

1 Ambulance stretcher

2 Blood glucose monitoring devices

2 Portable suction devices

3 Rigid suction catheters

3 Flexible suction catheters

2 of each size Oropharyngeal airways

2 of each size Nasopharyngeal airways

2 of each size Rigid splints (6 inch, 12 inch, 18 inch, 24 inch,

and 36 inch)

2 Burn sheets

2 OB kits

2 CPR Manikins - adult

2 CPR Manikins - child

2 CPR Manikins - infant

1 per student CPR face shields or similar barrier device (or

provided by the student)

1 per student Pocket mask (or provided by the student)

1 Semi-Automatic Defibrillator or AED training

device

1 box IV Catheter - Butterfly

1 box IV Catheter - 24 Gauge

1 box IV Catheter - 22 Gauge

1 box IV Catheter - 20 Gauge

1 box IV Catheter - 18 Gauge

1 box IV Catheter - 16 Gauge

1 box IV Catheters central line catheter or intra-cath

1 unit Monitor/Defibrillator

1 unit Arrhythmia Simulator

1 box Electrodes

2 unit Intubation Manikin-adult

2 unit Intubation Manikin - pediatrics

1 set each type Laryngoscope Handle and Blades - one complete

set curved and straight, sizes 0 through 4

1 set Endotracheal Tubes - 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 5.5,

6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0

1 Esophageal Tracheal Double Lumen Airway

Device

2 each Stylet - adult and pediatric

1 box 1 cc Syringes

1 box 3 cc Syringes

1 box 5 cc Syringes

1 box 10-12 cc Syringes

1 box 20 cc Syringes

2 IV Infusion Arm

5 bags each IV Fluids: 100cc, 250cc, 500cc, 1000cc

5 sets each IV Tubing - 10gtt and 60gtt

5 sets Blood tubing

2 Sharps containers

1 for each skill Invasive Skills Manikin – Cricothyrotomy,

Central Line, Tension Pneumothorax

NOTE: A single manikin equipped for all skills,

or a combination of manikins to cover all skills,

is acceptable.

1 for each skill Training Devices for intraosseous and sternal

intraosseous, adult and pediatric

NOTE: A single device equipped for all skills,

or a combination of devices to cover all skills,

is acceptable.

2 Magill forceps

2 Hemostat forceps

3 IV tourniquets

3 Scalpels

1 Simulated Drug Box

[Dustdevil]

You will definitely want to double the amount of just about everything you anticipate needing. It is amazing how many whackers will try to stock their new ALS response bag using supplies and equipment taken from your school. Along those same lines, before you order any equipment, order several different sizes of stencils and lots of paint to mark everything permanently with.

I find it also important to have multiple types of each equipment on hand for training. If you train with only one kind of head immobiliser, c-collar, monitor-defibrillator, AED, or traction splint, your students will be unprepared for the variations they may encounter in the field. Same thing with IV catheters. This is what separates the fly-by-night monkey schools from true educational institutions.

I'll be interested in hearing how things progress! This is a very big undertaking, and I wish you the very best of luck!

[Timmy]

I could send you some syringes, if you add up all the boxes I'm sure we literally have 40,000 plus. We have 20 big boxes of IV Saline, massive box's of dressings, a whole filling cabinet shelf full of needles, cannulation and venipuncture gear. millions of mulitsticks and medical equipment we will never use... Only have 16 people in my class. We pretty much get what ever is expired/what they don't want from 3 different hospitals. They drag in garbage bags full of gear.

[Dustdevil]

That brings up a good point. I was going to recommend establishing a relationship with the hospitals and EMS services for their excess and expired supplies. But I was under the impression that a lot of them now had programmes that allowed them to return those things for credit from their suppliers. I dunno. :dontknow:

I realise this isn't exactly what you were asking, but it's just something to think about early along the same lines.

[AnatomyChick]

Thanks to you all for responding... Thanks for the list, and yes..I have had students fill their personal bags with school equipment, thanks to dust for reminding me to stencil everything.... in the program that I'm teaching I have already had to replace Airways, the AED Trainer, and the lungs on the airway manikin...and we're just 5 weeks in.

When I used to teach for the hospital we got all of their expired stuff.. thanks for reminding me to rebuild those connections. Please keep the ideas coming... we're trying to get everything together by January.

Jo

[Timmy]

Or… you could order some gear, smash some of it up, write a abrupt letter to the supplier stating this is how you recovered it and your threatening to take legal action. They normally send a box of new gear for free and some other assorted items.

[AnatomyChick]

Not that you would know.... thanks for the idea, but I like my freedom.